The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-11-11

Two hundred and nifty union job printers
Of Chicago struck ON the LIST for the nine
hour day. Several Of the largest Offices had
yielded.
ALFRED SToNK. . survivor OF the ill-fated
propeller Vernon, lost in Lake Michigan.
was picked up by the schooner Pomeroy.
When Stone was found he was on raft
with the body of another man.
GOVERNOR and Mrs. ]. B. Gordon, OF
Georgia, and Senator and Mrs. 81. B. Payne.
Of OHIO, were the guests OF w. ]. Gordon,
Of Cleveland, on the I'd.
TIE grand jury at Delhi, Ind, has re-
ported that the names Of the men who
lyuched Amer Green could not DO learned.
The sheriff is fully exonerated.
Fulton l. PETERS, coal and grain dealers
at Wilmington, O., have assigned with
$50, 600 assets and SO, 900 liabilities.
E. L. HARPER, defaulting cashier Of the
Fidelity Bank, Of Cincinnati, occupies
cell in the county jail
FIRE in Tuscola, ILL.,, recently destroyed
]. B. Walmsley's -four mill and 1000 BUSH
els of wheat, causing &c, 900 loss.
A Crow Agency, N. T., special OF the I'd
says: Two troops Of colored cavalry and
one from the Cheyenne agency arrived to-
night Indian scouts report two white men
killed on Reno creek, near here, yester.
day.
AT Stcubenville, O., recently, while
John q. Beatty and Miss Hattie Turner.
both prominent society people, were cross
ing the Panhandle railroad track they were
run down by a locomotive and Beatty was
killed instantly and Miss Turner received
fatal injuries.
THE citizens Of Minneapolis, Mimi, have
appointed committee of fifty to try to Sc
cure the Republican National convention
next year.
JUDGE SAWYER, of the United States Cir
cult Court at San Francisco, has allowed
the executors of late ex-senator Sharon an
appeal to the United States Supreme Court
against the decree which decided that
Sara Alshea Hill was Sharon's wife.
Tue Supreme Court of the United States
on the I'd handed down its opinion in the
Chicago Anarchist case. The application
for writ of error was denied.
THE jury in the caseOf "Blinky" Morgan,
on trial at Ravenna, O., for the murder OF
Detective Hulligan, returned verdict of
murder in the flrst degree.
THE coal miners strike above Evansville,
Ind, has ended in the return of the men at
the old wages.
THE st. Louis job printers struck on the
I'd for an extra dollar per week, the wages
having been SIS.
JOSEPH SMITH, capitalist, Cincinnati, has
failed. Assets, sa5O,OOO; liabilities, $780,
000
A CROWD of vicious boys in Cincinnati
recently attempted to upset a car by plac-
ing distractions on the cable road at Vine
street and Clifton avenue.
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burned the other morning with its valuable
paintings and furniture. Loss about $780,,
900; insured.
THE Utah express on the Denver & Rio
Grandc was robbed near Gunnison, Col.
on the morning of the Sd. The robbers
failed TO open the safe which contained
considerable treasure, and what they OBJ
tanned was small sum found in registered
letters.
TIE Attorney General of Illinois has filed
suit against four fire insurance companies
for doing business in violation OF their
charters.
A LONE highwayman held up the north
and south mail stages near Holbrook, Ariz.,
recently. One passenger was robbed OF
$50
The English ship Duchess. of Argyle,
site Neat bay, W. L.
A SPECIAL from Sault Ste Marie, Mich,
says the steamer Minneapolis had collided
with the oar.laden barge Rosa Sonsmith in
the canal, and cut her stern down to the
waters edge. The Sonsmith was saved
from sinking by shifting her cargo.
ARTHUR II. CAMPBELL. bookkeeper for
the Armour Packing Company, was ar
raigned in Chicago recently for the embcz-
element of $500 from the company, and
sentenced to two and a half years impris-
onment. Young Campbell comes of an ex-
cellent family, is thirty years of age and
married.
Hon. PHILIP L. SPooNER, SR., father of
United States Senator Spooner, died at
Madison, Wis, recently, aged seventy
six.
THE fruit preservers of the West have
decided to advance prices because Of the
short crop.
The circus that was wrecked at st. Louis
recently was wrecked again the following
day at Brazil, Ind, several more persons
being injured but no one killed. The az
gregate damage by the two accidents was
said to be S200, 600. In the last accident
four coaches were consumed by fire which
broke out in the wreck.
IT seems that the loss of the propeller
Vernon on Lake Michigan was due mainly
to the captains habitual drunkenness. He
was drunk when the vessel foundered.
THE SOUTH.
THE Southern Base Ball League was or